The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-12

i tnen mat iehou toio nim -yes; n.u
ton asker me II be was BY himself, and told
him yes. Yes, Hamilton had asked me before
IL l had seen him, Gavbrell. think he
asked me last week u l had seen any Of
mel reckon the old man is gsins Of on the
had told him that : saw the old sc. tlepan
going TO West Jsckson. That wss Tuesday
might that 1 saw him at the ticket once at
| the Vicksburg and Meridian railroad. about
$3.50 o'clock. [ bad ridden down in the red
carriage Of Col. Hamilton. with him and he
| driver, Barry. Sexton. about 8 O'Clock. /
| stayed ground the depot a while and saw Mr..
went around Farrishs's stable up into Ne
| grotown. Bat before / went up there, while
was at the depot where / saw Mr.. GAM
brell the train came in, and before it let5
asked me if had seen amy Of, those fell
lowE." / suppose he meant the Gam
brells, though he did not call their
names. After l went up into Negro
house maybe about II o'clock, think II
was otter the midnight Illinois Central train
went north that Col. II and my father and
Msj. Gibbs and myself and the DR. yer went
the sth Of ls't March, and since tho 9Th of
April have been eat ng and sleeping at
Col. II. 9 house. When Col. IA. jumped out
OF the carriage he fred as soon as he jumped
cut. saw him fire his fist shot. At the
time the moon was shining full and brigat
When the fret shot was fired the carriage
door was closed. only heard the first shot
fred but heard nothing to show that il was
fred towards the carriage, excspt that Col.
II. got out and said he was shot, and from
the sound of the pi tol. / thought from the
report Of the pistol that it was fired towards
the earrings. l.. M EUBANK.
A. H. JAYNE.
About 10 o'clock came out of Mr. Los
ser's house. which is on the south eide of
Capitol street and west Of the bridge. bad
been on the from step talking about four or
FIVE minutes, when l heard a pistol shot,
and in a loud, clear voice the word "mur'
DER; then there was pause. Then there
was rapid firing, as well as | could judge,
on the wet end of the bridge: The cry of
murder" seeme' to come from the APP
ptoach to the bridge on the north side of
The street and west side of the bridge.
There was repea ted firing. perhaps tb ee or
four shots, then there was one, as well as
recollect there was a single shot, and then a
volley # three shots, the flashes from ali Of
which Csaw. Thsy were almost instantan-
esus, and | saw them all with single
glance OF the eve. Those three shots
apparently came from the south side of
OF the bridge and all converging toward one
obj act on the apprO CHI of the bridge, from
ehich came responsive shot. After those
three shots there was another loud shot, psr-
lhDs uDle huOLg winch came rather
southeast by northwest-thst is going north
a little west. This was all the shooting /
heard. / judge that those shots we're di-
rectly opposite where l afterwards found
Ga brell dying on the sidewalk. This
morning took my position just opposite
where Gsnbrell was and at the very position
where saw those flashes. / was little
south Of the siddle Of the road just where
the north track of the street railway lie, and
those three flashes seemed to come from the
uidd N M tha From thA nnCifinp 4
occupied ON the gallery that night l could
see about so much of the road as L had seen
of those flashes. This was, presume, be-
cause the fias: es were cut on BY the wester-
Que stion-Do you think it possible for
snch three flashes to be fired from the same
pistol?
Answer-I do not think they could have
been from the same pistol. | do not think
they were in the same position. The shots
seemed not to be parallel, but Ell convergin2
toward the same object. Flashes seemed to
b. yard OF yard and halt apart. IshOuld
judge that there, were three weapons in three
hands-those three were in the road on
the west side, fifteen or twenty feet
from the bridge. The loud or double sh It
seemed to come from the west end of the
bridge. from different direction from that
from which the three previous shOa were
6red-it seemed to come from the bridge or
the approach on which Mr. Gsmb ell was
lying, but could not tell at what object it
was fred; do not think saw that tlash at
all. Previous to that had seen four flashes.
Question-was the moon shining so you
could see anybody.
Answer-I think could have seen, but
McDonald's foundry would shut off my view
from more than one-half the road bed. After
that double shot was fred walked up there
and found directly opposite where saw
those flashes Gambrell lying with his head q
little to the northwest; | saw several parties
there, among others MIR. Carraway and,
kaIs NJ .
ly tying his shoe at the gate. saw Mr..
Heaphy's door pushed to, and there seemed
to he one two parties standing round the
door. A minute or so before the shooting
saw two men, one going from the sidewalk by
Heaphy's store diagonally across to Anime
Seutter's photograph gallery, and another
man was coming from about Barney Fitz-
patrick's store diagonally to the east of Nc
Donald's residence fifty or seventy-fve
yards He was walking at a rapid pace, and
was dressed in a dark suit Of clothes. / did
not notice where they stopped. When the
shooting commenced did not see them.
QUESTIONABLE you see any vehicle?
Answer-My recollection is that there was
vehicle passed perhaps ten minutes before
going eastward.
Question-Do you remember the names of
the persons you saw standing over the body
of Mr.. uambrell?
Answer-I do not remember the names of
any except Mr.. Carraway.
Question Did you see Mr.. AlbrechtG
Answer-No sir, not then. As was going
up the ST. Get to Mr.. Gambrell's house after
ward l think 1 met Mr.. Albrecht and Mr..
Carraway going west in front of Mrs Ambvo-
sia's bOuse / went to Mr.. Gambrell's house
i'm m ediatelv after the iring-'hat is, sup
pose it took me about minute to got to the
body and stayed there about minute.
QuestiOn-What direction did you say the
double shot came from2
Answer-It sounded as if it came from the
east to the west. 1t must have been on the
aot., aaht 20 ha hws1 NA,N ,ku.I
was. There was simply perceptible inter.
val between that and those three cOnverging
shots. There was the FIRST shot, then the cry
of murder, then some shots could not see,
tn en- three converging shots from the middle
Of the road toward the approach, and then
lastly a single shot
Questionable Gambrell say anything at
,Answer-Not word; my recollection is
tried to lift him, and he moved his hand con-
vulsiyeiy. When l came back from
his fathers house l found, them
bringing him home on q board, and
he was still moving his arm, but /
do not think he was ever again conscious.
1t was reported last night that some one had
been feen running around the western APP
proach TO the bridge, next to McDonald's
foundry, and as was & rug homo from sit
$3.50 or o'clock, there were about six col
Ored persons down towards and directly OPP
pOsite the approach. They were filing in
some earth on the south side from where
Gam brell fell. / took position directly
south of where 1 saw those flashes, and OBJ
served there was quite a distance between
tn southwest approach and the roadbed, l
looked to see ii IL was possible for an } body
to get below and behind the embankment so
as to ambush on the other side of it, and
when came east at o'clock this morning,
/ observed that there were a good many
thistlss there, and observed them carefully.
1t looks as if some of them had been freshly
chopped with q hoe, and as if others had
their leaves pressed with the foot. and these
thistles we're cut for a distance of ten or
twelve steps, clear up to where the approach
to the bridRe comes nearest t. the embank-
mont. These thistles were under all the
east spans of the approach, and the one next
to the last had all the thistles cut under il,
and the one next west Of that had the this
ties cut for several feet. Mr.. Van Buren,
one OF the jury, here said that he and an
other juror had examined them and the
street hands had cut them. This cutting Of
the thistles was done, though they were just
then filling iu the dirt there to make the
road bed extend out there.l
QUESTIONABLE you see any bullet marks
on the bridgs2
Answer-Yes, sir, two deep bullet marks.
think they came rom the east; the first
was about where Ga mbrell's feet lay, and
the other about six feet further east, and
thew lonkad "a IL thew ware not frad frOm